Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrodinger (12 August 1887-4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist who was known for his innovations in quantum theory, earning him the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Biography
Erwin Schrodinger was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in 1887 to a Catholic father and a Lutheran mother of English and Austrian descent; he was raised as a Lutheran, but later became an atheist. He served in the fortress artillery during World War I, and he became a physics professor after the war's end. From 1927 to 1934, he was a professor at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany, but he left Germany due to his distaste for anti-Semitism. After the Anschluss, he was forced to recant his opposition to Nazism, but he and his wife fled to Italy rather than comply with their order to stay in the country. Irish Taoiseach Eamon de Valera invited Schrodinger to establish the Institute of Advanced Studies in Dublin, Ireland, and he became an Irish citizen in 1948. He stayed in Dublin until he retired in 1955, and he died in Vienna in 1961 at the age of 73.